Can be used with any supported format, also (b|g)zipped files, e.g., mydump.sql.gz .

Form based SQL Query

Can be used with valid SQL dumps.

Using upload directory

You can specify an upload directory on your web server where phpMyAdmin is installed, after uploading your file into this directory you can select this file in the import dialog of phpMyAdmin, see $cfg['UploadDir'].

Comma separated values format which is often used by spreadsheets or various other programs for export/import.

Note

When importing data into a table from a CSV file where the table has an
‘auto_increment’ field, make the ‘auto_increment’ value for each record in
the CSV field to be ‘0’ (zero). This allows the ‘auto_increment’ field to
populate correctly.

It is now possible to import a CSV file at the server or database level.
Instead of having to create a table to import the CSV file into, a best-fit
structure will be determined for you and the data imported into it, instead.
All other features, requirements, and limitations are as before.

The ESRI shapefile or simply a shapefile is a popular geospatial vector data
format for geographic information systems software. It is developed and
regulated by Esri as a (mostly) open specification for data interoperability
among Esri and other software products.

During import, phpMyAdmin uses the sheet name as the table name; you should rename the
sheet in your spreadsheet program in order to match your existing table name (or the table you wish to create,
though this is less of a concern since you could quickly rename the new table from the Operations tab).

You should also make the first row of your spreadsheet a header with the names of the columns (this can be
accomplished by inserting a new row at the top of your spreadsheet). When on the Import screen, select the
checkbox for “The first line of the file contains the table column names;” this way your newly imported
data will go to the proper columns.

Note

Formulas and calculations will NOT be evaluated, rather, their value from
the most recent save will be loaded. Please ensure that all values in the
spreadsheet are as needed before importing it.

This is just preconfigured version of CSV export which can be imported into
most English versions of Microsoft Excel. Some localised versions (like
“Danish”) are expecting ”;” instead of ”,” as field separator.

If you want to embed table data or structure in LaTeX, this is right choice for you.

LaTeX is a typesetting system that is very suitable for producing scientific
and mathematical documents of high typographical quality. It is also suitable
for producing all sorts of other documents, from simple letters to complete
books. LaTeX uses TeX as its formatting engine. Learn more about TeX and
LaTeX on the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
also see the short description od TeX.

The output needs to be embedded into a LaTeX document before it can be
rendered, for example in following document:

Open standard for spreadsheet data, which is being widely adopted. Many recent
spreadsheet programs, such as LibreOffice, OpenOffice or Google Docs can handle
this format. Additionally, some versions of Microsoft Excel can be adapted to
use the OpenDocument Formats through helpers like
<http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/>.

Export in SQL can be used to restore your database, thus it is useful for
backing up.

The option ‘Maximal length of created query’ seems to be undocumented. But
experiments has shown that it splits large extended INSERTS so each one is no
bigger than the given number of bytes (or characters?). Thus when importing the
file, for large tables you avoid the error “Got a packet bigger than
‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes”.

Complete inserts adds the column names to the SQL dump. This parameter
improves the readability and reliability of the dump. Adding the column names
increases the size of the dump, but when combined with Extended inserts it’s
negligible.

Extended inserts combines multiple rows of data into a single INSERT query.
This will significantly decrease filesize for large SQL dumps, increases the
INSERT speed when imported, and is generally recommended.